1574 in music
# 1574 in music

## Publications

* Lodovico Agostini – First book of canzoni alla napolitana for five voices (Venice: sons of Antonio Gardano)
* Giammateo Asola
   * First book of masses for four voices (Venice: sons of Antonio Gardano)
   * Psalmodia ad vespertinas omnium solemnitatum horas for eight voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto), also contains two Magnificats
* Joachim a Burck – Passio Iesu Christi. Im 22. Psalm des Propheten Davids beschrieben for four voices (Erfurt: Georg Baumann)
* Joachim a Burck & Johannes Eccard – Odae Ludovici Helmboldi, latinae & germanicae (Odes of Ludwig Helmbold, in Latin and German) for four voices (Mühlhausen: Georg Hantzsch), a shared volume of hymn settings
* Ippolito Chamaterò – Introits for four, five, and six voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
* Girolamo Dalla Casa – First book of madrigals for five and six voices (Venice: the sons of Antonio Gardano)
* Johannes Eccard – Zwentzig Neue Christliche Gesäng Ludovici Helmboldi (Twenty New Christian Songs by Ludwig Helmbold) for four voices (Mühlhausen: Georg Hantzsch)
* Andrea Gabrieli – First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, figliuoli)
* Vincenzo Galilei – First book of madrigals for four and five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, figliuoli)
* Jacobus de Kerle – Egregia cantio, in gratiam et honorem generosi ac nobilis domini, Melchioris Lincken Augustani for six voices (Nuremberg: Theodor Gerlach)
* Orlande de Lassus
   * Patrocinium musices, Part 2 (Munich: Adam Berg), a collection of masses for five voices
   * Patrocinium musices, Part 3 (Munich: Adam Berg), a collection of liturgical music for five voices
* Giorgio Mainerio – Magnificat in all eight tones for four voices (Venice: Giovanni Bariletto)
* Claudio Merulo – First book of ricercari da cantare for four voices (Venice: the sons of Antonio Gardano)
* Philippe de Monte
   * Third book of motets for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
   * Fifth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: the sons of Antonio Gardano)
* Melchior Neusidler – Teuetsch Lautenbuch

## Births

* January 9 (baptized) – Christoph Buel, German composer
* January 17 – Robert Fludd, English composer and writer (died 1637)
* March 7 (baptized) – John Wilbye, English madrigal composer (died 1638)
* May 14 – Francesco Rasi, Italian tenor (died 1621)
* July 8 (baptized) – Giovanni Battista Stefanini, Italian composer
* September 2 (baptized) – Georg Leopold Fuhrmann, German lutenist, engraver, printer, editor and publisher
* September 27 (baptized) – Jean Dufon, Flemish composer and singer
* date unknown
   * Andreas Hakenberger, composer (died 1627)
   * Francis Tregian the Younger, English recusant and musician, possible compiler of the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book
   * Claudio Pari, Italian composer

## Deaths

* February – Domenico Ferrabosco, Italian composer and singer
* March – Giovanni Contino, Italian composer
* March 5 – Pedro Fernández, Spanish composer
* November – Robert White, English composer
* date unknown
   * Jean Guyon, French composer of chansons
   * Antonfrancesco Doni – Italian writer, academic and musician
